According to official statistics only 0,7% cases reviewed in Russian court receive non-guilty verdict. The sentence of acquittal requires more bureaucratic paperwork and the judges giving the verdict are often suspected of receiving bribes. In a flawed system lawyers and people trying to protect themselves can only count of minimizing the punishment.

Illustration for an article in 'Profielen', the magazine for Rotterdam Hogeschool. The article 'Tests, you could also learn from them' was about the positive side of testing students and how they can even learn more through being tested. Art director: Evelien van Vugt

30.07.2015 Fiscal quirks 3: UK beer tax fills the public treasury. Even without a Brexit Britons go their own way with tax rules that the rest of Europe also just has to swallow. The beer tax has lead to a big fuss in their own country.

British Labour party politician Jeremy Corbyn has been hailed by some as a messiah. He doesn't need to be, as long as he is ready to smash current economic principles like austerity and the current consensus on debt.

27.07.2015 Fiscal quirks 2: Belgian taxes, welcome to Absurdistan. The unvarnished opinion of Belgians about their tax system sometimes doesn't come from to their ambivalent attitude towards their national government. The European Commission has said for years that the Belgian taxes are due for a major overhaul. And though Flemish and Walloon politicians endorse the need for tax reform, little will happen.

I made this photo for the V-Zomer magazine (a special magazine that comes with the Volkskrant on saturdays during the summer). The article was about food-scientist Coraline Barends who researched and trained babies into eating vegetables in an early stage, so that when they grow up and get older, they will benefit from this early start and thus eat more vegetables and enjoy it more. I wanted to exaggerate the aim and message of the article, so I overloaded a kid with vegetables, to create a temporary sculpture

A personal project illustrating scenes from last summer's scorcher.
This is a timely image with the stag and hen party season in it's height, and a glimpse of of a friend's debauched weekend.
The fifth image in the series, stay tuned for more to appear in the near future.